Now that #GrantAllen's "time is not quite so filled now with hack-work as formerly," he can enjoy using the telescope that "[#Darwin] and the other kind friends" bought for him.
What treasures {or horrors, as the case may sometimes be} might the Darwin Correspondence Project at #CambridgeUL reveal about your #C19 passions?
#histodons #scihistodons #hstm #victodons
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13736.xml&query=grant%20allen
To celebrate the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species today, the Darwin Correspondence Project at #CambridgeUL has published the full edition of #Darwin 's correspondence online! Explore more than 15000 letters, from Darwin's first letter in 1822 to his death in 1882.
Much as I like physical books, it's really exciting to have the collected correspondence now full-text searchable:
For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final print volume, covering the last four months of Darwin’s life, will be published in early 2023 and all the letter texts – more than 15000 between 1822 and 1882 – are now published online. Discover more about the final months of Darwin's life in our Life and Letters series, 1882: Nothing too great or too small. See a full list of letters from 1882.
Mercedes Sheldon
Aileen Fyfe